Republican Sinn Féin (RSF) is a minor political party operating in Ireland. It formed in 1986 as a splinter from Provisional Sinn Féin. A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... A true colour image of Ireland, captured by a NASA satellite on January 4, 2003. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The decision was taken in response to Provisional Sinn Féin's decision at their 1986 Ard-Fheis to end their policy of abstaining from taking seats won in Dáil Éireann. RSF viewed this as an acceptance of the legitimacy of the Republic of Ireland and hence of partition of Ireland into the Republic and Northern Ireland. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dáil Éireann is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland1. ... The Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ...

The splinter was led by the former leader of Provisional Sinn Féin, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and much of the older Southern based membership of the provisionals who disagreed with Gerry Adams and his Northern based backers. The Continuity IRA, founded in 1994 in opposition to the ceasefire declared by the Provisional IRA, is believed to have links to RSF. Both RSF and the CIRA have been proscribed by the United States State Department as terrorist organisations. Gerry Adams (born October 6, 1948) is an Irish politician, Member of Parliament for the West Belfast constituency and President of Sinn Féin. ... The Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) is an Irish republican paramilitary group that split from the Provisional IRA in 1986 in a dispute over the attendance of the elected representatives of Sinn Féin (the political party affiliated to the Provisional IRA) at Dáil Éireann (the lower house of... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... Terrorism refers to the use of violence for the purpose of achieving a political, religious, or ideological goal. ...

RSF claims to be the true inheritor of a tradition of Irish republicanism that includes the original Sinn Féin of the secessionist Irish Republic declared in 1919, and the 'Old' Irish Republican Army that fought the 1919-1921 War of Independence. It claims via a kind of apostolic succession: Irish Republicanism is the nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ... -1... The Irish Republic (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann or Saorstát Éireann), also known as the Republic of Ireland, was a revolutionary state established by Irish nationalists seeking secession from the United Kingdom (UK) in the 1910s, with the aim of supplanting the UK government. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... An Irish War of Independence memorial in Dublin The Anglo-Irish War (also known as the Irish War of Independence) was a Ireland by the Irish Republican Army. ... In Christianity, the doctrine of apostolic succession maintains that the Christian Church is the spiritual successor of the Apostles. ...

• the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 was incompatible with the Irish Republic and hence null and void.
• all Irish elections subsequent to the Second Dáil election in 1921 were based on the Treaty and hence illegitimate.
• The 64 TDs who voted for the Treaty in 1922 had violated their oath to the Irish Republic and abdicated their legitimacy.
• in entering the Dáil of the Irish Free State in 1927, the anti-Treaty TDs who had joined Fianna Fail had done likewise.
• the 7 "faithful" TDs of the Second Dáil had transferred thier authority to the Army Council of the IRA in 1938.
• the last remaining of the seven, Tom Maguire, had in 1969 recognised the Provisional IRA (rather than the Official IRA).
• Maguire subsequently switched to recognising the Continuity IRA in 1987¹.

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RSF remains a small party and continues its policy of abstentionism, thus meaning they have not stood in elections to either the Commons or the Dáil. They also opposed the establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly as they felt this further entrenched a British presence in Ireland. They have therefore not participated in elections to the Assembly either. The Northern Ireland Assembly is a 108-member legislative body for Northern Ireland that sits at Stormont with powers devolved to it from the Westminster parliament. ...

They stand on a platform of the establishment of social justice based on what they describe as the principles of Irish Republican Socialism, based on the 1916 proclamation of an Irish Republic. They also have a policy named Éire Nua ("New Ireland"), which would see the establishment of a 32 county Ireland completely independent of the United Kingdom and set up as a federation of the four Irish provinces. The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... The Easter Proclamation, officially called but rarely referred to as the Proclamation of the Republic, was a document read by Padraig Pearse at the start of the Easter Rising in Ireland in April 1916, in which a supposed republican Provisional Government claimed the right to proclaim Irish independence from the... The island of Ireland is often referred to as the 32 counties, with its two states, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, being nicknamed respectively the six counties and the twenty-six counties. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... A federation (from the Latin fœdus, covenant) is a state comprised of a number of self-governing regions (often themselves referred to as states) united by a central (federal) government. ... During late Celtic and early historic times Ireland was divided into provinces to replace the earlier system of the tuatha. ...

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh remains RSF's President.

Notes

1. This claim was made based on a letter released in 1996; Maguire had died in 1993 aged 101.

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External link

• Official web site (http://www.rsf.ie/)